Comments on: TV Propaganda Bill: £178.7m

By: The North Briton

The North Briton — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:40:11 +0000

Y’all forgot to factor in BBC news programming, eastenders, arts programmes by that marxist Waldemar Whatshisfuck, and the french revolution programme partly by all-round foamer Slavoj Žižek. And no doubt countless others.

By: DavidNcl

DavidNcl — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:47:25 +0000

Can anyone guess what the ratio of “customer contact” or “front-line” (as if) jobs like in the so called public sector to non contact jobs is? And what it is in the private sector?

By: Charlotte Gore

Charlotte Gore — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:17:38 +0000

Sheesh. Still, if this sort of thing helps towards making people realise that not every single penny of public spending is absolutely 100% necessary that’s half the battle.

Of course, if you’re going to cut Public Spending you *start* with Nurses, don’t you? Only once you’ve got rid of all the Nurses do you think about other things.

By: Marc Bénier

Marc Bénier — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:12:30 +0000

Well just to add to the fun:

The Tories spend over £2M per annum on communication consultants in East Sussex

Tories spent inxs of £6M on launching the ‘Kent County Council’ TV propaganda channel.

Just what council tax was meant for…..

By: Oranjepan

Oranjepan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:58:55 +0000

Communications, mmm, advertising, mmm, propaganda, mmm.

Y’know you could be a Daily Mail copywriter if you could dredge up this amount of highly-caffienated reactionary zeal every morning!

It’s something to aim for.

By: Tim Wallace

Tim Wallace — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:47:05 +0000

On top of local government publicity, running at 450 million per year http://tpa.typepad.com/waste/2007/12/council-spendin.html

That’s doubled in the last decade.

By: DavidNcl

DavidNcl — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:08:27 +0000

And of course it’s the goverment spend on public sector job ads that keeps the Guardian staggering.